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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Tho. Davy at our house in the even, to whom, and in the day, I read 6 of Tillotson's sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tho. Davy at our house in the latter part of the even to whom I read the last of "The Complaint" and part of Sherlock on death. I now having read "The Complaint" through...Thomas Turner Edward YoungThe Complaint: or night thoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tho. Davy at our house in the latter part of the even to whom I read the last of "The Complaint" and part of Sherlock on death. I now having read "The Complaint" through...Thomas Turner William SherlockA practical discourse concerning deathPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tho. Davy came in after supper and stayed with us about 2 1/2 hours. He and I looked over Gordon's "Geographical Grammar", and in particular the religions of all nations...Thomas Turner Patrick GordonGeography anatomized: or a compleat geographical g...Print: Book
1700-1799'Tho. Davy Spent the Even and Supp'd at our house and read 2 of Tillotsons sermons to us.'Tho Davy John TillotsonSermonsUnknown
1700-1799'Tho. Davy to our house in the evening to whom I read two nights of "The Complaint", one of which was the Christian triumph against the fear of death, which must be allow...Thomas Turner Edward YoungThe Complaint: or night thoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Thomas Carter [a nineteenth-century Colchester and London tailor] wrote of "The Seasons" that, "With the exception of the Bible, I know not that I ever read any other bo...Thomas Carter The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Thomas Carter [a nineteenth-century Colchester and London tailor] wrote of "The Seasons" that, "With the exception of the Bible, I know not that I ever read any other bo...Thomas Carter James ThomsonThe SeasonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Hardy, to whom [Rider] Haggard sent his Norse adventure "Eric Brighteyes" (1891), was roused by "a wild illustration" to start reading a chapter nearer the end th...Thomas Hardy Rider HaggardEric BrighteyesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Jones recalled that his mother, a Rhymney straw-hat maker, "was fifty before she read a novel and to her dying day she had not completely grasped the nature of fi...Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Thomas Moore regularly read to his wife for two hours after dinner, at one point "going through Miss Edgeworth's works".'Thomas Moore Maria Edgeworth[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ...Thomas Thompson Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ...Thomas Thompson John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ...Thomas Thompson [Old Testament]Print: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ...Thomas Thompson [tale of Robin Hood]Print: Book
1800-1849'Thomas Wood, an apprentice mechanic, described the problems he faced [reading] in [...] dark evenings: "I had to read by firelight excepting when I could afford a 1/2d c...Thomas Wood  Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Thoroughgood’s notice of Wells’s book was deplorable. ['Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island']. For one thing the book is magnificently written. To me it is the best nov...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsMr. Blettsworthy on Rampole IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Those 2 poems of Masefield's are very good....Poetry counteracts the deadening influence a good deal....I am reading "The Loom of Youth" in bits....It is very good and i...Edward Brittain John MasefieldThe Loom of YouthUnknown
1900-1945'Those famous sonnets, brought into prominence by the poet's death on the eve of the Dardanelles campaign, were then only just beginning to take the world's breath away, ...Vera Brittain Rupert Brooke1914Print: Book
1800-1849'Those latter volumes of the Allemagne will perplex you, I fear. The third in particular is very mysterious; now and then quite absurd. Do not mind it much.'Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-HolsteinDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book


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